“I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona”
W. H. Auden
“One cannot help but begin the year with the sense that uncertain times lie ahead. The world economy is in a much more fragile state.”
Charles Dallara
“ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)He zedjagged so uncomen wyde Thet non coude pas on eyder syde; So, to com saufly thruh, I been Constreynet for to doodge betwene. --Munwele”
Ambrose Bierce
“I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: / But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”
Bible
“After the city lost all of its recreational supplies and equipment in the storm, at one point we were uncertain if we were going to be able to hold our annual summer camp. But thanks to the tremendous outpouring of support, it looks like we will be in great shape and we are looking forward to another exciting summer for our campers.”
Sean Campbell
“We are only one month into our first quarter. Our view of the year remains uncertain. While we are expecting continued pressure in second quarter, we anticipate business will improve in the second half of 2001.”
Heidi Kunz
“A lot of companies are kind of pre-announcing uncertain second halves, or disappointing second halves.”
Kevin Bannon